Rediscovered: female American modernist
Abstract art that reflects the artist’s spiritual beliefs
Pelton's works are poetic celebrations of nature that explores the vital forces animating the physical world
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Agnes Pelton
Desert Transcendentalist
Agnes Pelton: Desert Transcendentalist will be the first survey of this under recognized American painter in over 22 years. Her distinctive paintings could be described as metaphysical landscapes rooted in the California desert near Cathedral City. Pelton chiefly drew on her own inspirations, superstitions, and beliefs to exemplify emotional states.
description
The publication seeks to clarify the artist’s significance and role within the cannon of American Modernism but also against the legacy of European abstraction. It contextualizes her work against her contemporaries, Marsden Hartley and Georgia O’Keeffe, and their distinct versions of American spiritual modernism. Pelton’s highly symbolic paintings were inspired by religious sources ranging from Theosophy and Agni Yoga to the spiritual teachings of Dane Rudhyar and Will Levington Comfort. Over three decades she devoted herself to painting spiritual abstractions, which conveyed her “light message to the world.”
press commentaries
The book is a welcome, deferential consideration of Pelton’s work. At last, artists like her, who come from outside the mainstream traditions of 20th century art, are getting the art history they deserve.
MutualArt
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Ed. Gilbert Vicario
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Essays by Gilbert Vicario, S. Aberth, E. Armstrong, E. Doss, M. Zakian, R. Sadvary Zebro
220 pages, 132 colour illustrations25 x 29 cm, hardcover
ISBN: 978-3-7774-3974-7
Events
Phoenix
| Phoenix Art Museum
Santa Fe
| New Mexico Museum of Art
New York City
| Whitney Museum of American Art
Palm Desert
| Palm Springs Art Museum
Keywords
Modern Art, Abstract art, Abstract painting, 20th century, Abstraktismus
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